London Football Ground Challenge - for Sport Relief

[palkanetoijala31]

Latest update the Daggers will probably let us on the pitch but want to know roughly what time we will be arriving route guys?

[Going Underground]

Latest update the Daggers will probably let us on the pitch but want to know roughly what time we will be arriving route guys?

Good work, we might as well contact all the clubs incl. Spurs & Chelski you never know you luck.......

OK possible route discussed with Soup Dragon and Dr Who was a "Horseshoe"
Leaving a car at High Barnet we then head to/meet at Watford, order of grounds as follows
Watford QPR Brentford Fulham/Chelsea or vice a versa Crystal Palace Millwall Charlton West Ham /Dagenham or vice a versa Orient Spurs Arsenal High Barnet..... (Hope that all the teams covered)

So all we need now is the perfect route, taking into account tubes, buses, national rail, DLR, trams & river boats and a starting time..... We can then estimate a rough time that we will be at each ground

We also need to find out all the planned engineering works taking place that weekend on tube & national rail.......

[palkanetoijala31]

accorsing to tfl website the district line is not running from west ken to acton town and richmond but will be running down the wimbledon branch so i dont think it effects that much apart from brentford though

[Dr Who]

What I would suggest then is we do QPR then head down to Chelsea, Fulham then make are way across to Brentford on SWT & back out again over to Crystal Palace.

[palkanetoijala31]

Brentford have responded as being away they are not sure of anybody being at the ground so we can ask if we find someone there.

[Dr Who]

Have just been looking at the National Rail links we will be using with the "Horseshoe" route and as far as I can work out there are no engineering works getting in are way. & trains seem to be quite regular in most places.

[Dr Who]

Right I think its time to give a overview of the '' Horseshoe" route, you will have to bear with me at places like Tottenham area with regarding how we are to make are way up to White Hart Lane after visiting Leyton as there are lots of ways of doing it will all depend on the time we are there.

Start
Watford FC (Walk) to Watford High Street
Watford High Street (Overground) to Queen's Park
Queen's Park (Bakerloo) to Paddington
Paddington (Run) Paddington H&C
Paddington H&C (H&C) to Shepherd's Bush H&C
Shepherd's Bush H&C Walk to QPR FC
QPR FC Walk Back to Shepherd's Bush H&C
Shepherd's Bush H&C (H&C) to Hammersmith
Hammersmith (Piccadilly) to Earl's Court
Earl's Court (District) to Fulham Broadway
Fulham Broadway walk Chelsea FC
Chelsea FC walk back Fulham Broadway
Fulham Broadway (District) to Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge walk to Fulham FC
Fulham FC walk back to Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge (District) to East Putney
East Putney (Run) to Puntey
Putney to Brentford (2 differnt options to get to Brentford FC have to see what happens on the day)
Brentford FC (walk) to Brentford
Brentford (SWT) to Clapham Junction
Clapham Junction (Southern) to Thornton Heath
Thornton Heath (walk) to Crystal Palace FC
Crystal Palace FC (walk back) to Thornton Heath
Thornton Heath (Southern) to South Bermondsey
South Bermondsey (walk) to Millwall FC
Millwall FC (walk back) to South Bermondsey
South Bermondsey (Southren) to London Bridge
London Bridge (SouthEasten) to Charlton
Charlton (walk) to Charlton FC
Charlton FC (walk back) to Charlton
Charlton (SouthEastern) to Greenwich
Greenwich (DLR) to Heron Quays
Heron Quays (Run) to Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf (Jubilee) to West Ham
West Ham (District) to Dagenham East
Dagenham East (walk) to Dagenham & Redbridge FC
Dagenham & Redbridge FC (walk back) to Dagenham East
Dagenham East (District) to Upton Park
Upton Park (walk) to West Ham FC
West Ham FC (Walk Back) to Upton Park
Upton Prak (District) or (H&C) to Mile End
Mile End (Central) to Leyton
Leyton (walk) to Leyton Orient FC
Leyton Orient FC (walk back) to Leyton
Leyton (Lots of differnt options here about how we get across to Seven Sisters)
Seven Sisters (One) to White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane (walk) to Tottenham Hotspur FC
Tottenham Hotspur FC (walk) to White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane (One) to Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters (Victoria) to Finsbruy Park
Finsbury Park (Piccadilly) to Arsenal
Arsenal (walk) to Arsenal FC
Arsenal FC (walk back) to Arsenal
Arsenal (Piccadilly) to Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park (Bus Route 4) to Tufnell Park
Tufnell Park (Northren) to High Barnet
High Barnet (walk) to Barnet FC
Finish

Hope thats everything!

[dudey]

blimey, it looks one hell of a long day now!

[Going Underground]

blimey, it looks one hell of a long day now!

It took Dr Who a hell of a long time to put that route together, hes has been looking at bus and national rail options and timings for the last 2 days

[joy54]

Route looks very good, only one problem I'd say is that you'd be better off for Crystal Palace to go from Clapham Junction to Crystal Palace itself and catch the bus from there (249 then 468) or at least do that on the return as there aren't any direct trains from Thornton Heath to South Bermondsey whereas there are 4 trains and hour from Crystal Palace to South Bermondsey. If you were to go from Thornton Heath to South Bermondsey, you'd have to go down to East Croydon, then wait for a half hourly service to South Bermondsey which would go through Crystal Palace anyway.

[Going Underground]

I think I might kit myself out in some of the snazzy socks and sweatbands from the sport relief link below through Sainsburys....also get a bottle that can be filled up as we go around on the day... Anyone else up for this

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sportrelief ... av_primary

[greatkingrat]

A few alternative routes to consider:

To get to Loftus Road, 220 bus from Willesden Junction looks quicker than going all the way in to Paddington.

From Craven Cottage, you might as well just walk straight to Putney NR. Getting on the District for one stop doesn't seem worth it.

As for Arsenal to Barnet you don't need to go to Finsbury Park. Just catch 43 or 271 from Holloway Road to Archway.

[tangy]

Leyton to Seven Sisters- right in my area of London.

Several options here:
--158 to Blackhorse Road or 69/97 to Walthamstow Central. Then Victoria line to Seven Sisters
--W15 to Hackney Downs then ONE train direct to White Hart Lane

[nozzacook]

Route looks good but it going to be a long one but its for Charity

[Soup Dragon]

4 weeks to go until the challenge, the website for donations is now set up and I'll post the details here shortly. It allows people to join the team and get individual donations which go towards the teams total. Thanks to Jamie for the initial route and to others for chipping in with ideas. I'm on leave next week so this will give me some time to go through everything and try to come up with a rough timetable for the day. Over the next four weekends we could do with assinging people to go out and research certain bits of the route (or we could just wing it on the day!) Also we need to try and squeeze in a footie skills training session